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When Home Isn’t Safe: Immigration Enforcement Meets Housing Discrimination

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This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. For one California mother, public housing has been a lifeline for her household of five—her two young adult daughters, husband, and young nephew. She could not afford rent without the federally subsidized housing that they all share. It’s also a lifeline for another […]

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Trump’s Energy Secretary Aims to Claw Back Billions Slated for Clean Energy Projects

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, on Wednesday announced that his department will return to the treasury billions of dollars set aside for green projects, while dodging questions about affordability and grid reliability and claiming international climate policy has […]

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The Biggest Hurdle to Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements: The War on Disabled Workers

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Armond Dai has been living with Long Covid since his second infection, in September 2023. In December, his symptoms forced him to leave his job in architectural design; since March, he’s been on Medicaid. Dai, who lives in California, is one of many chronically ill and disabled people who, under new Medicaid work requirements included […]

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The Charter School Pressuring Teachers to Get Involved In Politics

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A few days before a September 18th pro-charter school rally, Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy—New York City’s largest charter school network—dropped in at a new teacher training. The visit was unannounced. Moskowitz had an urgent message for her employees that had nothing to do with pedagogy or classroom management: You need to help […]

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Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Will Stop Abortions—Even Though They’re Legal

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At least one Planned Parenthood affiliate is preparing to drop abortion services in an apparent bid to remain eligible to participate in Medicaid under the GOP budget law enacted this summer. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI) is not scheduling abortion appointments beyond September 30, two sources confirm to Autonomy News. Under the Congressional budget’s “defund” […]

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Democrats Demand Answers on Third Country Deportations

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A group of more than 60 Democratic legislators sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday that expresses “grave concerns” about ongoing removals to so-called “third countries” to which immigrants have no connection.  The legislators are requesting that the Trump administration provide “basic information” about the scope of the third country removal program, which […]

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Democrats Demand Answers on Third-Country Deportations

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A group of more than 60 Democratic legislators sent a letter to the Trump administration Wednesday that expresses “grave concerns” about ongoing removals to so-called third countries to which immigrants have no connection.  The legislators are requesting that the Trump administration provide “basic information” about the scope of the third-country removal program, which the administration […]

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Clients of a Trump-Connected Lobbying Firm Keep Landing No-Bid ICE Contracts

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The company’s biometric tech always sounded like it was ripped from the plot of a dystopian thriller, but recently, the iris-scanning system developed by the Massachusetts-based BI² Technologies has become part of the nation’s deportation dragnet. How BI² landed an ICE contract worth as much as $10 million is in part a tale of the […]

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God’s “Blank Check”: Christian Zionists Are Pouring Billions of Dollars Into Israeli Extremism

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By any measure, Yael Eckstein is an incredibly effective advocate for Israel. As the president and global CEO of a massive Israel-focused philanthropy, she oversees humanitarian relief, security programs, social services for elderly Holocaust survivors, and Jewish resettlement. On her weekly podcasts, she ties biblical teachings to modern Israel and personal stories from her own […]

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The Settlers’ Man in Washington

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This past summer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines when he falsely claimed at a Christian conference in Jerusalem that there was “no starvation in Gaza.” A less noted, but also telling, moment came after Netanyahu’s remarks, when Yossi Dagan, a leading advocate for Israeli ambitions to annex Palestinian territory, presented evangelical minister Paula […]

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The Dismantling of the US Forest Service Is Imminent

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1880s, giant cattle companies turned thousands of cattle out to graze on the “public domain”—i.e., the Western lands that had been stolen from Indigenous people and then opened up for white settlement. In remote southeastern […]

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Anti-Vax Groups Struggle to Explain How Tylenol Fits In With Their Whole Thing

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Since President Trump’s rambling Monday announcement about the supposed cause of autism and a purported new treatment, anti-vaccine groups have grappled with what the administration’s latest revelations mean for their movement. While some MAHA activists appeared to be overjoyed that the president had brought their cause to a national stage, others were frustrated that it […]

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